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PER Confidence Building Measures in Kosovo
The Project on Ethnic Relations announces its newest report:
Confidence Building Measures in Kosovo
http://www.per-usa.org/Reports/KSo3 Kosovo Confidence Building 2007.pdf

Research by Save the Children reveals children's insights
http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/what we do/newsdesk/2007-09-18.html
Save the Children has carried out an extensive, field-based research in 7 countries/entities in Southeast Europe, speaking to more than 600 children in individual interviews and focus-group discussions on how they perceive the risks of trafficking and exploitation, what are their own strengths and coping mechanisms and how states and civil society can better provide protection and assistance to children most at risk.

Balkan Peace Park Project
http://hiddeneurope.co.uk/peaceparks.php
or for an more extended overview try the Balkan Peace Park Project website at:
http://balkanspeacepark.org/

Kosovo/a Youth
http://www.kosovo.undp.org/?cid=2,82
If you are interested to know more about Kosovo/a youth, and many other publication and reports...

SEE-EU blog on Western Balkans and EU
http://www.kakanien.ac.at/weblogs/see-eu/
250 posts, more than 100 links on South-Eastern Europe and the EU: the
"SEE-EU" blog on /Kakanien revisited/, is intended to be a forum for
discussion on the political and social processes linked to EU
integration in the Western Balkans, creating a virtual network of
researchers on this topic. You are most welcome to contribute to this
weblog with comments, postings, links, or photos.

Building the Balkans Anew
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu
Keynote Speaker: Robert Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public &
International Affairs, University Center for International Studies Research
Professor, & Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies,
University of Pittsburgh.

Political Advocacy Groups
http://www.csuchico.edu/~kcfount/alpha.html

Balkan Rights Yearbook
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Balkan Human Rights Yearbook (BHRY) is annual publication of the Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN). The Yearbook is a scientific periodical publication that promotes and explores Balkan countries achievements and experiences in the implementation of universally accepted concept of human rights.

Hidden Europe Magazine
http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk
The Balkan region features regularly in the magazine hidden europe a
bi-monthly that publishes well researched essays on aspects of life,
language and culture in Europe¹s lesser known regions.

Expression of interest to host and to promote
http://www.aso.zsi.at
What you can expect from us: Assistance for a statement of advisor/supervisory consent (the needed key document for the application) and to HOST you at our institution in Austria or at the academical partners institutions in Austria.

Albanian Journal of Politics Vol. 2
http://ajp.alpsa.org/
iThe 2006 volume of the Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) has now been
published and can be ordered through all major book distributors and
bookstores.

Documentary films on SEE social, political and human rights
www.documentaryportal.com
iThe European Documentary Portal would be interested to publish stories about documentary films in production on various South Eastern European social, political and human rights issues.

iDOC
www.idoc.ba
iDoc is the first digital archive of print media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, developed and maintained by the Mediacentar Sarajevo (http://www.media.ba). The iDoc database currently contains over 250 000 texts of published material from number of print media in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Albanian Serb Information Exchange Forum
http://www.kosovakosovo.com Three project partners - the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE) in Thessaloniki , the Beta Media Center in Belgrade and KosovaLive agency in Pristina have jointly established an internet based, interactive news resource called, The Albanian-Serb Information Forum. The Forum is locally owned and uses three languages: Albanian, English and Serbian.

Central and Eastern European Online Library
http://www.ceeol.com
C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 206 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/5publications2.htm
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the LSE announces the publication of three new Discussion Papers in its South East Europe Series: Enver Hoxhaj (2005)-The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation in Kosovo Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos (2005) -Non-governmental organizations and civic initiatives in South Eastern Europe: Towards a transnational civil society? Claudia Grupe and Sinisa Kusic (2005)- Intra-regional cooperation in the Western Balkans: Under which conditions does it foster economic progress?

Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program
http://pfsprogram.org
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) established the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program in 1999 as a public private partnership to help complete reforms necessary to have market-oriented, sound and well-functioning financial sectors in the eight Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries that have since joined the European Union. In 2005, the geographical focus of the program shifted to South East Europe (SEE).

Program on Rights and Justice
http://www.ewmi-praj.org
The Program on Rights and Justice (PRAJ) is a human rights and rule of law program awarded to the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The program started in 2003 and is scheduled to end in March 2008.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund
http://www.rbf.org
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund promotes social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Through its grantmaking, the Fund supports efforts to expand knowledge, clarify values and critical choices, nurture creative expression, and shape public policy. The Fund's programs are intended to develop leaders, strengthen institutions, engage citizens, build community...

Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing
http://www.fcyo.org/
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a collective of national, regional and local grantmakers and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social justice.